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Gig review: SPRINTS at Rescue Rooms, with Chalk

A pinnacle performance of the year: SPRINTS race for gold in their cathartic celebrations at Nottingham's Rescue Rooms...

Thrills, spills, and non-stop jokes at the Playhouse panto

The much-beloved Nottingham Playhouse pantomime reaches new heights this year with a giant of a show. Yes, it's Jack and the Beanstalk... 

In photos: Robert Jon & The Wreck at Rock City, with Eddie 9V

Nadia on... disability

Nottingham East MP Nadia Whittome writes about disability rights, recognition and representation.

Billy Nomates

Tales From the Caves: Exploring Nottingham’s Underground Stories

Ncf Comedy Presents: Glenn Moore: Work In Progress

Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason

Gingerbread Christmas Quest

Just Breathe and Full Body Reclaim, With Trish Kerrison and Caroline Stancer

Writing Ghost Stories: Part One

Rambling Cinema Presents: Voy! Voy! Voy!

Dance Mosaic

Stanley Middleton's Booker Prize finds a new home in Nottingham

Fifty years after he became the first ever joint winner of the Booker prize, we join a celebration of Stanley Middleton at Nottingham Central Library.

Locating Lawrence: December 1924

Lawrence encounters the first populist presidential campaign in Mexico’s history and a scorpion...

Salt of the Earth: Catching up with musician and Saltbox manager Sam Heaton

There are few people who live and breathe Nottingham’s vibrant music scene quite like Sam Heaton. From his own ambient rock band Eyre Llew being one of the city’s greatest exports, to a stint in charge of Rough Trade’s events, as well as independently booking and promoting local artists for the last two decades too, his fingerprints have been on a lot of the city’s musical successes. Earlier this year though, he took on a tough new challenge – transforming Saltbox from a little-known sports bar into a versatile 500-person capacity music venue and events space. 

To find out more, we sat down with Sam to chat about his first seven months running the venue, the hurdles he’s had to overcome in that time, and what he has planned for the venue and his band in 2025…

Mini Throwing Taster

Bubbles & Baubles

Vision Video

An Evening With Snooker Legend Jimmy 'The Whirlwind' White

Gingerbread Christmas Quest

Monday Club ( Youth Club )

The Snuts

We chat to Becky Unthank about winter, family and the Northern weather

Ahead of their headline show in Nottingham, Becky Unthank talks with Michael Prince about In Winter, the new album from The Unthanks. Together, they delve into tales as old as time...

Gig review: The Slow Readers Club at Rescue Rooms

Manchester indie outfit The Slow Readers Club are no strangers to Nottingham, having played our city a whopping 10 times in the last eight years. With a strong following in Nottingham as a result, it made sense for them to kick off their current UK run at Rescue Rooms, including several live debuts for tracks off their forthcoming, seventh studio album, Out of A Dream. Here’s what went down…